02.06.15
US Patent No. 8,927,475 B2; The Dial Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, has patented a bio-based non-food/non-fuel consumer product composition comprising at least one bio-derived ingredient collectively obtained as a mixture from algae through autotrophic or heterotrophic processes. At least one ingredient includes a surfactant selected from the group of ethoxylated compounds consisting of fatty alcohol ethoxylates, ethoxylated fatty amines, ethoxylated fatty acid esters, and mixtures thereof. The ethoxylated compounds include ethylene oxide residues obtained from ethanol of algae origin.